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Large Olmec Greenstone Celt, Middle Preclassic, ca. 900-600 B.C.
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description
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the ceremonial implement a symbol of growing maize and associated with rulership, carved in expanding form, one end rounded and the other sharp; in yellow green mottled stone.
Provenance
Sotheby's, November 23, 1998, lot 96
Catalogue Note
Cf. Berjonneau, Deletaille and Sonnery (1985: fig. 28).